The European Association for Banking and Financial History (eabh) e.V.
Banks, insurance companies and other financial institutions are members of eabh.
eabh members recognize their responsibility towards society. Only a well functioning financial sector can help to increase the welfare of all.
eabh places current challenges of the financial sector into a historical context. Our historians work on long-term topics that matter to the management of financial institutions and policy makers.
eabh promotes archives. Accurate and accessible records of past activities are the indispensable foundation for a sustainable global financial system.
eabh circulates sound research and information upon which today’s decision makers can rely.
The legacy of the past continually resurfaces to determine actions in the present and the future. Through eabh membership institutions gain access to a global network of financial history experts who can provide competent advice.
Carmen Hofmann
Gabriella Massaglia (eds.)
Carmen Hofmann
Gabriella Massaglia (eds.)
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Carmen Hofmann
Martin Müller (eds.)
Piet Clement
Harold James
Herman Van der Wee (eds.)
Vappu Ikonen
Duncan Ross (eds.)
eabh believes that safeguarding the records of financial institutions will improve the protection of global financial stability. Authentic and reliable memory systems are needed to understand current crises and to evaluate risks.
For that reason a project on archival legislation for finance (ALFF) has been started in 2012 with the objective of collecting information about best practices of financial institutions in building and improving their archives.
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28 May 2018
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Productivity growth has been trending down since the early 1970s in most developed economies, except for a few years around the year 2000. In emerging markets, productivity growth, too, has started to slow significantly around ten years ago. This is a puzzling development, as we see technological innovation taking place at a rapid pace. This moderation in productivity matters: ‘Productivity is a gift for our living standards – perhaps the greatest.’, Andrew Haldane, the BoE Chief Economist, said.
How can we explain this productivity puzzle, which is among the most pressing public policy issues today? And what does it imply for investors ?
Can history be a guide? Let’s discuss with two experts.
Conference
15 Jun 2018
Torino, Italy
eabh in cooperation with Fondazione 1563 per l’Arte e la Cultura della Compagnia di San Paolo
‘The City is too big and socially useless’said Lord Adair Turner, former chairman of the UK Financial Services Authority in 2009.
That legitimacy question has not gone away since, indeed, if anything it appears to grow stronger. This conference explores how financial institutions have tackled it by developing alternative goals and business forms for durable financial services.
Archival Workshop
14 Jun 2018
Torino, Italy
eabh in cooperation with Fondazione 1563 per l’Arte e la Cultura della Compagnia di San Paolo and UPIER (Uses of the Past in International Economic Relations
This one-day workshop is designed for financial institutions’ archivists, researchers and potential users. How can archives prepare their collections of information in a way that puts them to their best use? How do researchers use archive collections?
Workshop
19 Jun 2018
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Together with University Bonn and Erasmus School of Economics eabh will hold a workshop for new scholars in the field of financial history research.
Conference
26 Oct 2018
London, United Kingdom
Up to the beginning of the 20th century stocks were primarily owned by wealthy private individuals. Now, 100 years later, institutional investors hold almost twice the amount. They have 112trn assets under management (AUMs) compared to the 72,3trn that were held by High-Net-Worth-Individuals in 2016. The ascent of institutional investors as one of the most powerful players on global financial markets today is a highly relevant yet under researched topic.
This conference will ask the question of when, how and why this massive structural shift happened? And which are the consequences for our societies? How can we set policy frameworks today in a way that ensures that these investors will be able to deliver adequate pension payments in the future?